I have two Hard Drive one is an 80GB the other is a 1.9GB hard disk.?

Question

I am planning to install Windows XP Professional on the 1.9 Hard Drive but want to know if I can have the updates, etc going onto the 80GB Hard Drive

Answer 1

Hi Nicola,
I would think that by Installing the operating system on the 1.9 would mean the updates also went onto the smaller drive. Usually a second or third hard drive is used to store docs and personal files which can easily be "hidden" for added security.

Also by having XP pro on a smaller drive, you would limit the amount of virtual memory available to your processors needs. Have a good think about it, maybe you will get better insight from other members, I'm not too au fait...just know enough, y'know?

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Don't think it'll fit on a small drive like that, XP takes up a lot of room.

Given the size of the disk, I would assume that it's pretty old, and therefore not especially quick, and because of that, I really wouldn't bother putting any OS onto it - it'll slow the peformance down.

In fact, I wouldn't bother even putting the 1.9 gig drive into the system, you won't get any tangible benefit. It might be useful for storing photos etc on, but not much else.

Answer 3

Unless it’s a typing error and you meant to say 19G instead of 1’point’9G as you cannot install Windows XP on a 1.9G hard drive.

It is possible to download the updates individually using 2000 advanced server and 2003 enterprise server operating systems with full admin privileges licensed by Microsoft this allows the Administrator the opportunity to upgrade the WorkStation machines at any time.

Answer 4

A little known but under-used feature of XP is the ability to extend one drive onto another. Use the disk manager to do this and check the help files before starting.

Have to agree with the other comments though. Given that you can have a 400Gb drive for £80, why bother with a drive of less than 2Gb?

Answer 5

Just get rid of the 1.9GB hard drive. If it is that small it is probably about 10 years old and I wouldn't put an opperating system on a HD that small or old. the 1.9 of the drive isn't worth the trouble of installing it.

Answer 6

True, use the 1.9GB one as a huge flash disk :).

replace the empty space in your computer with a bigger one. It's not worth installing windows on such a small HDD anyway, as windows will take more than half of it and windows itself needs some free space to operate - the more the faster it is, putting it on a small HDD as this one will slow down your computer.

Answer 7

if you install the windows os in the 1.9gb and try to run the windows update, all the updates will be installed for the one in 1.9gb.

You can update the other windows os while working in one windows os. Whatever OS you run at the time of connecting to the internet will get updated.

Its very simple !!

Answer 8

genuinely, i've got on no account heard of a not elementary diskpersistent not working as a results of processor. i'm unsure, yet I actually have a pentium 3 prossesor and that i put in a one hundred twenty gb hdd without issues. All i did became into verify i had the properly suited pin connections and made specific no rely if it fairly is ATA or SATA. returned i'm not one hundred% specific, yet stable success!

Answer 9

Just wanted to add a little fact. the OS has to run off of the C drive, which means your OS grows in size with any updates as well.

Answer 10

If you using windows update prigram supplies by microsoft you wont be able store on sparate media. but if you try to download update from microsoft's site minually you can save the the upadate executable file on diffrent storage devide.but later you the agian setup the program will copy the update to the operating system's sytem folder.